A few months ago we announced that Galicia and the Autonomous City of Melilla (//www.bebesymas.com/salud-infantil/galicia-mellila-no-aceptaran-ninos-vacunar-escuelas-infantiles-a-render-proximo-curso) would require children to have the daily immunization schedule to be able to enroll them in a public nursery school.
The measure has been made effective in Galicia already in the registration period of this month of June. Now, in view of the success of the measure, the Galician Government has decided to go one step further. The Council of the Xunta de Galicia has approved this week the beginning of the processing of the demographic impulse law to become "the best place to start a family". Among the measures that it includes: raising the obligation to the rank of law. It thus becomes the first Community in Spain to force children to vaccinate by law to go to a public nursery.
It affects all nursery schools
Municipal nurseries, Sergas, universities or social initiative; that is, all those financed with public funds will be obliged to demand that the vaccination calendar is in order to enroll a student.
The Xunta cannot force this requirement to be met by private companies but, as it has been informed, it does guarantee that parents know in which centers it is required and in which others are not. This is explained by 'La Voz de Galicia', which adds that the articles of the law include that the nursery registration form must reflect that the center is not guaranteed "That all children are vaccinated."
The law only exempts children who cannot be vaccinated for any health reason from the obligation.To justify it and to enroll the child, parents must submit a medical report stating that immunization against certain diseases is not considered safe. It will be necessary to specify what they are and the reasons, which may be temporary or permanent. If the Administration contrasts the information and considers it valid, the child may attend a public nursery school.
The required vaccines are those approved in all communities, included in the calendar of the Vaccine Advisory Committee of the Spanish Association of Pediatrics and free for families.
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Vaccines immunize children in more than 90 percent of diseases, a figure that reaches almost 100 percent, in the case of babies. And forcing to include the vaccination card as a requirement to enroll a child is useful to guarantee universal immunization in classes, a measure that is already mandatory in some countries such as France and Italy.
In these cases, children who are not vaccinated for measles, mumps and rubella are not accepted in public centers. This measure is very understandable considering the measles alert that is being lived in countries of Europe or in New York City, where they have had to force vaccinations.
In Babies and more Obligation of vaccines to access the nursery: how it is in Spain and other countriesBut in Spain it is not a legal requirement and so far only some communities, such as Castilla y León and Extremadura, establish in the admission requirements that parents of children under three who want to access a public nursery school, provide the card of vaccination to make the registration, but only for information.
However, there are legal precedents on which the Xunta de Galicia has been based to elaborate this law, as a sentence of the Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia, which gave the reason to a center that refused to admit a child without vaccinating .
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